The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-25
NO. "a.
the SMOKING HABIT.
A Brief Bat Exhaustive Argument Agafna
the Use of Tobacco.

a Brief Bat Exhaustive Argument AgainaS
the Use of Tobacco.
An English journal recently offered
a prize for the best argument against
smoking. Following is the article leg
which the prize was awarded:
It is unphysiOlOgical because no ami
NAL in q state of nature uses it, and the
first time q man smokes he is usually
violently upset by it. When person
eats q new kind of fruit for the first
time he may not like It, but Il does NOS
make him i'll, as such fruit Is food
But tobacco, being q poison, nearly
always causes an upset to the system.
1t is only by continued use that man
can use it without being made imme-
diatelv i'll; he is made ultimately dis
eased by its use.
It is expensive because there is ne
need for it; it is not even luxury that
helps US to spend our superfiuous cash
harmlesstV, because it causes more
loss and injury than It does good. In
England we spend at least El2.O0O,OOO
year on tobacco alOne} what with
pipes, matches, cigar-holdcrs, cigaret-
tubes, cigaret-machines, etc, we do
not spend short of G20, 100000.
It is a dirty habit. What smells
worss than the breath of a smoker,
than his tobacco-soaked clothes, and
his rank piper Then the ashes from
pipes, cigars and cigarets fall on
clothes, carpets, table~Clot etc, and
dirty or disfigure them. Smoking
bIackens the teeth, and if pipe is
smoked the teeth that hold it are worn
away, and so we spoil natural adern-
ment-the teeth.
1t is selfish, in that the person only
who uses it gets pleasure from it, and
that often at the expense of others.
Smokers poison the air common to all
" the fumes they emit. The SELFISH
ness of the smoker causes FAM
lily quarrels and disputes, the man
preferring his pipe to his wife
or sweetheart, 1t is disease-prO-
ducing. 1t stops growth, and causes
ill-developed persons II used be-
fore growth has stopped. In adults it
irst bIunts the sense of taste, smell and
sight, and, indirectly, the hearing aud
touch. 1t always produces more or
less sore throat, and often, in cOnse-
quepce, the worst kind Of deafness
viz: throat deafness. When absorbed
into the system it causes palpitatiOn
and irregular action of the heart. aBd
has depressing influence on it, 1t de-
lays digestion, causes nervousness,
trembling of hands, indecision, loss Of
energy and of will-power, with lowness
of spirits 1t deadens thought, and
makes u man dan and listless instead
of being intelligent and active. 1t
causes loss of appetite, helps on cancer
of the stomach and is the actiye cause
of most cases of cancer seen liz the
lower lip, which is rarely seen except
among smokers. Il also lessons the
vitality, and wounds heal less rapidly
amongst smokers than amongst nom
smokers. II wastes time and energy,
1t wastes energy as it depresses the
vital powers and uses up itself life and
power that should be used for helping
on mankind. 1t leads to drinking.
Smoking always causes n dryness Of
the throat, and the saliva elected is
fluid lost to the system; to relieve
both these conditions fluids are taken.
AS tobacco is a nervine depressent alcO-
hOl is often used to get rid of this de-
pressed feeling. Statistics of temper
ance friendly societies show that smok-
ers break away from their pledge in
greater numbers than nOn-smokers dO.
1t leads to loss of property, goods
and lives, by the fires which originate
by lighted ashes from pipes, by lighted
cigar ends, or matches used by sInok-
ers. The loss in this country by fire
traceable to smoking is very large
Chicago Tribune.